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    The thyroid function of Graves' disease patients is aggravated by depressive personality during antithyroid drug treatment

    We previously reported that depressive personality (the scores of hypochondriasis, depression and psychasthenia determined by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)) and daily hassles of Graves...

    Atsushi Fukao, Junta Takamatsu, Sumihisa Kubota, Akira Miyauchi in BioPsychoSocial Medicine (2011)

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    Resistance to Thyroid Hormones and Screening for High Thyroxine at Birth

    Resistance to thyroid hormone encompasses a heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by reduced responses of target tissues to a supply of thyroid hormone which under normal circumstances would be exces...

    Samuel Refetoff, Myriam Charbonneau in Research in Congenital Hypothyroidism (1989)

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    A New Form of X-Chromosome Linked TBG Abnormality with No Demonstrable T4-Binding Activity

    Diagnostic work-up for short stature uncovered TBG deficiency in an 11 year old girl (propositus) with XO Turner’s syndrome. Studies on members of the family revealed that the two hemizygous affected subjects ...

    Yoshiharu Murata, Junta Takamatsu, Samuel Refetoff in Frontiers in Thyroidology (1986)

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    Thyroid Function Tests in Subjects with a Genetic Isoelectric Focusing Variant TBG

    A variant thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) with slower migration on isoelectric focusing (TBG-S) has been found in some American Blacks. It is inherited as an X-chromosome-linked trait. Hemizygous males with T...

    Junta Takamatsu, Michiyasu Ando, David Sarne, Samuel Refetoff in Frontiers in Thyroidology (1986)